This article originally appeared in the February 2023 print issue of The Lutheran Witness. When you sit down in your pew this coming Sunday, do you see the pew with five persons in it? It is a young family, and how lovely they look. Notice the other pew with 10 persons, with people happily crowding together. Fellow worshipers are a delight to behold. That joy is not tempered by knowledge of sickness and death. It would not surprise you that one of those sitting in the row ahead is receiving c...
